Career
Baptised Belinda Molony to Francis and Catherine Maloney of Tulla, County Clare, she took the name Mary Xavier upon taking her vows as a Presentation Sister at Galway in 1825. In August 1833 Molony, Mother Mary Bernard Kirwan and two other sisters left Galway for Newfoundland to found a school for orphan girls, at the suggestion of Bishop Michael Anthony Fleming. According to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography:
The group were noted as the first nuns in Newfoundland.
However, she became ill within three years and had to return to the mother house in Saint John"s where she died, aged 84.
